IGNOU MBA HRM 2025: Eligibility, Admission, Syllabus & Career Opportunities

Name of the Programme

Master of Business Administration (Human Resources Management)

Programme Code

MBA-HRM

Eligibility

Passed Bachelor's Degree of Minimum 3 years duration with at least 50% marks (45% in case of candidates belonging to reserved category).

Duration

• Minimum: 2 Years
• Maximum: 4 Years

Fee

Program fee: Rs. 15,500 per semester

IGNOU MBA Subject

IGNOU MBA Syllabus

Management Functions and

Organisational Processes

• Management: An Overview
• Management and its Evolution
• Roles of Managers
• Planning
• Organizing
• Staffing and Directing
• Controlling
• Leading and Motivating
• Decision Making
• Organization Structure & Design
• Organisation Communication Processes
• Organization Cultures
• Managing Change
• Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Human Resource Management

• Concept and Evolution of HRM
• Functions of HRM
• Environment and HRM
• Human Resource Planning
• Job Analysis, Design, and Evaluation
• Recruitment and Selection
• Socialization and Mobility
• Performance Management
• Career Development
• Training and Development
• Compensation and Rewards Management
• Employer-Employee Relations
• Employee Engagement Processes
• Grievance Handling and Discipline Procedures
• Unions and Associations

Business Environment

• Introduction to Business and Environment
• Economic Growth and Development
• Socio-cultural and politico Legal Environment
• Business Ethics and CSR
• Indian Financial System
• Industrial Policy Framework
• Agribusiness Environment
• Structural Reforms
• New Economic Policy
• Financial Sector and Fiscal Sector Reforms
• International Financial System
• BOP
• Foreign Trade
• Sources of Global Financing
• Technological Environment

Accounting for Managers

• Introduction to Accounting
• Preparation of Books of Accounts
• Financial Statements
• Preparation of Final Accounts of Companies
• Cash Flow Statement
• Understanding and Classifying Costs
• Absorption and Marginal Costing
• Activity-based costing
• Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
• Budgeting and Budgetary Control
• Variance Analysis
• Understanding Annual Reports
• Comparative, Common Size, and Trend Statements
• Ratio Analysis
• Human Resource Accounting
• Forensic Accounting

Quantitative Analysis for Managerial

Applications

• Quantitative Decision-Making - An Overview
• Collection of Data
• Presentation of Data
• Measures of Central Tendency
• Measures of Variation and Skewness
• Basic Concepts of Probability
• Discrete Probability Distributions
• Continuous Probability Distributions
• Decision Theory
• Sampling Methods
• Sampling Distributions
• Testing of Hypotheses
• Chi-Square Tests
• Forecasting Methods
• Business Forecasting
• Correlation & Regression
• Time Series Analysis

Marketing Management

• Marketing: An Overview
• Marketing Environment Analysis
• Market Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning
• Consumer Behaviour
• Product Decisions
• Branding Act packaging Decisions
• Product Life Cycle (PLC) and New Product Development (NPD)
• Pricing Decisions
• Integrated Marketing Communication
• Advertising and Sales Promotion
• Personal Selling and Managing Sales Personnel
• Marketing of Services
• Digital Marketing
• Other Emerging Issues in Marketing

Business Communication

• Basic of Communication
• Process of Communication
• Types of Communication
• Forms of Communication at Workplace
• Listening and Reading Skills
• Interpersonal Communication
• Communication in Meetings
• Presentation Skills
• Basics of Written Business Communication
• Short Business Correspondences
• Long Business Correspondence
• Communication for Employment
• Technology and Communication
• Cross Cultural Communication
• Ethics in Communication

Information Systems for Managers

• Information Technology: An Overview
• Computers and Smart Devices
• Computer Software
• Networking Technologies
• MIS and Control Systems
• Information Systems Economics and Security
• Transaction Processing Systems, DSS, and EIS
• Integrated Applications
• Building Information Systems
• System Analysis and Design
• Computer Programming and Languages
• Database Resource Management
• Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
• Emerging Trends in IT

Management of Machines and

Materials

• Operations Management: An Overview
• Product Selection and Process Selection
• Facilities Planning
• Facilities Layout and Material Handling
• Planning and Control for Mass Production
• Planning and Control for Batch Production
• Planning and Control for Job Shop Production
• Planning and Control of Projects
• Capacity Planning
• Work Design and Job Design
• Value Engineering and Quality Assurance
• Purchase System & Procedure and Inventory Management
• Standardization, Codification and Variety Reduction
• Waste Management

Managerial Economics

• Scope of Managerial Economics
• Stakeholders, Objectives, and Decisions Issues
• Basic Concepts and Techniques
• Demand Concepts and Analysis
• Demand Elasticity
• Demand Estimation and Forecasting
• Production Function
• Short Run Cost Analysis
• Long Run Cost Analysis
• Market Structure and Barriers to Entry
• Pricing Under Competition and Pure Monopoly
• Pricing Under Monopolistic and Oligopolistic Competition
• Pricing Strategies

Social Processes and Behavioural

Issues

• Concept of Organisational Behaviour
• Approaches to Organisational Behaviour
• Evolution of Organisational Behaviour
• Personality, Values, and Attitudes
• Learning and Behavioural Modification
• Perception and Attribution
• Motivation
• Group Dynamics and Team Building
• Conflict and Negotiation StrategiesUnit-10: Job Stress
• Employee Empowerment
• Organisational Citizenship Behaviour
• Organisational Inclusiveness
• Diversity Management
• Positive Approaches to Work Behaviour

Strategic Management

• Concept of Strategy
• Strategic Framework
• Strategy in Global Context
• External Environmental Analysis
• Competitive Analysis
• Internal Environmental Analysis
• Business Level Strategy
• Competitive Strategy
• Corporate Level Strategy
• Implementation – Behavioural Dimensions
• Corporate GovernanceControl
• Evaluation

Business Laws

• Introduction to Business Law
• Principles and Concepts
• Companies Act
• Partnership Act
• General Principles of Contracts
• International Contracts of Sale
• Banking and Other Allied Regulations
• Foreign Exchange Management and related regulations
• Insolvency and Bankruptcy
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Sustainability and Business
• Environment Protection and Sustainability
• Competition Law
• Consumer Protection

Financial Management

• Financial Management: An Introduction
• Time Value of Money
• Risk & Return
• Valuation of Securities
• Cost of Capital
• Capital Budgeting
• Working Capital
• Financial Markets
• Sources of Finance
• Capital Structure
• Leverage Analysis
• Theories of Dividends
• Dividend Policies
• Emerging Issues of Finance
• Behavioural Finance
• Financial Restructuring

Research Methodology for

Management Decisions

• Research Methodology: An Overview
• Steps for the Research Process
• Research Designs
• Methods and Techniques of Data Collection
• Attitude Measurement and Scales
• Questionnaire Designing
• Sampling and Sampling Designs
• Data Processing
• Statistical Analysis and Interpretation of Data: Nonparametric Tests
• Multivariate Analysis of Data
• Ethics in Research
• Substance of Reports
• Formats of Reports
• Presentation of a Report

International Business Management

• Dynamics of International Business
• Globalization and evolving paradigm
• International Business Environment: An Overview
• Trade theories
• WTO Agreement
• Regional Trade Blocks
• International Entry Strategies
• Organizational Structures
• Strategic Alliances
• International Marketing
• International Finance
• International operations and logistics management
• International HRM

Organizational Theory and Design

• Approaches to Understanding Organisations
• Theoretical Frameworks
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Fundamentals of Organisational Structure
• Factors Affecting Organisational Structures
• Typology of Organisational Designs
• Contemporary Organisational Designs
• Approaches to Job Design
• Emerging Trends at Work
• Role of Organisational Culture in Design
• Organisational Conflict

Human Resource Development

• Human Resource Development: An Overview
• HRD Systems
• HRD: Processes and Methods
• HRD for Employees
• Role of HR Managers
• Competency Mapping
• Analysis of performance and career planning
• HRD Culture and Climate
• Counseling, Coaching, and Mentoring
• HRD in Industrial Relations
• Experiences and Trends in HRD
• Emerging Trends and Perspectives
• HRD Experiences

Industrial and Employment Relations

• Concept and Approaches
• Evolution
• Constitution, ILO, and Legal Framework
• Labour Administration in India
• Global trends
• Development and Functions of Trade Unions
• Trade Union Structure, Leadership and Recognition
• Managerial Unionism
• Employment Relations in Non-Union Firms
• Collective bargaining
• Bargaining structure, process, and agreements
• Negotiation
• Grievance Handling
• Discipline in Organisations
• Industrial Conflict

Compensation and Reward

Management

• Compensation and rewards management
• Frameworks of compensation policy and reward system
• Economic and behavioral issues
• International trends
• Legal framework
• Job evaluations and Internal Equity
• Compensation Management
• Pay structure
• External equity and pay surveys
• Institutional mechanisms for compensation
• Rewards Management
• Reward systems
• Incentive schemes
• Allowances, Perquisites, and Benefits

Advanced Strategic Management

• Corporate Management: An Overview
• Corporate Policy
• Intensive Growth Strategies
• Integration and Diversification Growth Strategies
• Strategic Alliances
• International Strategy
• Internationalization Process
• Evaluation of Market Risk Assessment
• Entry into the International Markets
• IT and Strategy
• Technology and R&D
• Knowledge Management
• Innovation

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial skills

Business Ethics and CSR

• Business Ethics: An Overview
• Concepts and Theories of Business Ethics
• Ethical Dilemmas
• Ethics in Business
• CSR: An Overview
• Business Strategy in CSR
• CSR in Global Context
• Business Ethics and CSR: Linkages
• CSR in the Indian Context
• CSR Legislation and Policy Guidelines
• CSR in PSUs
• CSR Reporting Process & Auditing
• Roles and Responsibilities of the CSR Department
• CSR and Sustainable Development